1992 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in the
Congolese Labor Party (PCT), which had been the ruling party during single-party rule.[2]
The PCT backed Lissouba at the time of the election, giving the pro-Lissouba National Alliance for Democracy (AND) coalition a slight parliamentary majority (64 out of 125 seats). However, when Lissouba gave the PCT only three posts in the 28-member government he appointed in September 1992,
With an opposition majority in the National Assembly, the PCT's
vote of no confidence on October 31,[4] and it demanded the appointment of a new Prime Minister from the parliamentary majority, as required by the constitution.[3] Rather than do so, Lissouba dissolved the National Assembly.[2][3] The URD and PCT protested this, and despite Lissouba's desire to leave Bongho-Nouarra in office during the interim period leading to a new election, he agreed under pressure to appoint a coalition government in which 60% of the posts were held by the URD and PCT (the "60/40" government of Prime Minister Claude Antoine Dacosta). Six months later, a new parliamentary election was held in June 1993.[2]
Results
References
- ISBN 0198296452
- ^ a b c d e f John F. Clark, "Congo: Transition and the Struggle to Consolidate", in Political Reform in Francophone Africa (1997), ed. John F. Clark and David E. Gardinier, pages 70–72.
- ^ a b c d e f Joachim Emmanuel Goma-Thethet, "Alliances in the political and electoral process in the Republic of Congo 1991–97", in Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress (2005), ed. Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Zed Books, page 110–113.
- ^ IPU-PARLINE page on the 1992 parliamentary election.